# Attach analyzers at index time

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attach-analyzers-at-index-time/6814
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 27, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attach-analyzers-at-index-time/6814 "2012-02-27T08:50:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Lior\_Cohen\_barnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Lior\_Cohen\_barnea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lior_Cohen_barnea)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attach-analyzers-at-index-time/6814/1 "2012-02-27T08:50:54Z")

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Hi all,

I am trying to attach an analyzer to a field at index time instead of  
mapping an analyzer to a field statically,

For example - I want to index documents both in English and French and  
I want to decide on the fly which analyzer to use when indexing the  
document.

Can it be done with Jason message or by Lucene query ?

Thanks,

Lior.

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### Author: ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attach-analyzers-at-index-time/6814/2 "2012-02-27T11:45:00Z")

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Hi Lior

> I am trying to attach an analyzer to a field at index time instead of  
> mapping an analyzer to a field statically,

> For example - I want to index documents both in English and French and  
> I want to decide on the fly which analyzer to use when indexing the  
> document.

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>
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clint

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### Author: ![Lior\_Cohen\_barnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dec6dc/32.png) [@Lior\_Cohen\_barnea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lior_Cohen_barnea)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attach-analyzers-at-index-time/6814/3 "2012-02-27T13:08:17Z")

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Thanks Clint, got the idea.

On Feb 27, 1:45 pm, Clinton Gormley [cl...@traveljury.com](mailto:cl...@traveljury.com) wrote:

> Hi Lior
> 
> > I am trying to attach an analyzer to a field at index time instead of  
> > mapping an analyzer to a field statically,
> 
> > For example - I want to index documents both in English and French and  
> > I want to decide on the fly which analyzer to use when indexing the  
> > document.
> 
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/mapping/analyzer-field.html)
> 
> clint

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attach-analyzers-at-index-time/6814/4 "2017-07-06T03:38:04Z")

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